This song is from the Rain Tree Crow album. You can hear the tension in every track. In many ways the whole thing didn’t work, but in a sense, just because of that it did.
I like this song even though it feels broken to me.
Month: January 2011
Listening Day 7: Darkest Dreaming
Darkest dreaming is, as you’d expect, a fairly dark piece by anyone’s standards, but even so there is a hint of hope in it. The music is sublime and floats around Sylvian’s voice without the two parts ever getting in the way of each other.
The song comes from the album ‘Dead Bees on a Cake’, which is a long listen, but has a lot of good tracks in it. It took me quite a while to appreciate the album, but now I really enjoy it and this is one of the tracks I like the most.
And now in iPad flavour too
I just enabled web app mode for the blog using iPads. So if you view it in mobile safari on your iPad it will come up as a web app and can be used in just that way. Hope that’s useful.
Thunderbirds are …
Stamps. Yes, dull, but I really liked these.
Listening Day 6: Cries and Whispers
This is such a delicate track, I really love it. It has wonderful mood swings and seems to change direction in mid flight.
It also seems quite a happy track for Sylvian, almost jolly even.
Still, I really enjoyed listening to it again.
Listening Day 12: How Little We Need to be Happy
Today is the original version of this track, or the very difficult one. I think it is fair to say that the Blemish album is a difficult listen, and this track is hard. Having said that it is also a very good track, and I love Derek Bailey’s work on it.
T.E.A.
Had a great pint of T.E.A. the other night. It is one of the best ales in my opinion. For those who don’t know, T.E.A. stands for Traditional English Ale.
Finding the listening Room
I heard about this site from Evolver.fm. It is just the sort of thing I was looking for when I wrote this post.
The listening room seems like a really good start
Listening Day 5: Cantonese Boy
Cantonese Boy by Japan is just a great pop song. The right length, the right content, everything works perfectly and yet it is also an excellent little song. I love this song and I love the Tin Drum Album.
Listening, Day 4: Buoy
I took a bit of a break from this project for a variety of reasons, not least of which is that I was ill, but also because what I really wanted to listen to was some Mick Karn.
Anyway, I’ve got back to it now, and listened to ‘Buoy’ from Mick Karn’s album ‘Dreams of Reason Produce Monsters’. Two tracks from this album featured David Sylvian on vocals and I’ve chosen this one to include in my month of listening to David Sylvian.
I already really liked this song, but listening to it again made me remember what an amazing album it is. When I first listened to it I was completely blown away by it, and I still am. ‘Buoy’ was a single from the album and I bought the 12″ when it came out.
The song is a great mix between two talents. It has an earthy quality that’s emphasised by David’s voice, and it carries you on a musical journey that lilts along somewhere between contentment and melancholia. It is a beautiful song, and I really loved listening to it again.
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